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Category: Book Reviews

Fight Song by Joshua Mohr: laughing with empathy all the way home

Posted on January 29, 2013July 30, 2026 by Charlsie-Kern Kruger

Bob Coffen is having a tough time. So much so, he might as well be living in his own last name. He doesn’t get much help from his aptly named boss, Malcolm Dumper. Bob’s reward for 10 years of service at Dumper Games is a combination plaque and clock: a plock.  The plaque reads, “It’s Read More

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The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood: the grand soloist, loss

Posted on December 26, 2012July 29, 2026 by Evan Karp

The Bellwether Revivals is not about music, or murder, or even love, though all three are present: the music a repeating grace note trill, the murder a quick, cruel beating on a snare, the love an arpeggio swell. Instead, the grand soloist of Benjamin Wood’s debut novel is the eternal rest and long pause of Read More

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